Re: How do you write input methods?

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, Aug 30 2021, Stephen Berman wrote:
> And you need
> to use register-input-method to enable invoking the input method via
> `C-\'; examples are in the lisp/leim/leim-list.el file.

That's interesting... I define a couple of personal input methods in my init
files and they do show up when I do `M-x set-input-method`, even though I don't
use `register-input-method`.

Hmm, looking at the doc string of `register-input-method`, I see the following
comment:

"
The commands ‘describe-input-method’ and ‘list-input-methods’ need
these duplicated values to show some information about input methods
**without loading the relevant Quail packages.** (emphasis mine)
"

Does that mean that `register-input-method` is basically just a way to tell
Emacs about available input methods without loading them? And since my input
methods get loaded during startup, there's no need to register them anymore?


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